History/Sub fields/Approaches
refers to the use of chance procedures in psychology experiments to ensure that each participant has the same opportunity to be assigned to any given group.
What is random assignment
the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.
What is memory?
the science that deals with the biological basis of behavior, thoughts, and emotions and the reciprocal relations between biological and psychological processes.
What is Biological Psychology?
condition characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Psychological Disorder?
a condition in a child that results from alcohol exposure during the mother's pregnancy.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
a term used in psychology to explain the tendency of people to overestimate their ability to have predicted an outcome that could not possibly have been predicted.
complex brain structure embedded deep into temporal lobe. It has a major role in learning and memory.
What is the hippocampus?
a complex collection of nerves and specialized cells known as neurons that transmit signals between different parts of the body. It is essentially the body's electrical wiring.
What is the nervous system?
a psychiatric disorder in which debilitating anxiety and fear arise frequently and without reasonable cause.
What is Panic Disorder?
the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
What is cognition?
a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
What is structuralism?
the inability to remember where, when or how previously learned information has been acquired, while retaining the factual knowledge.
What is source amnesia?
a long stem-like structure which makes up part of the brainstem.
What is the medulla?
a mental health problem that primarily affects a person's emotional state. It is a disorder in which a person experiences long periods of extreme happiness, extreme sadness, or both.
What is mood disorder?
the characteristics and aspects of personality that we are born with.
What is temperament?
the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
a cognitive bias where people decide on options based on whether the options are presented with positive or negative connotations.
What is framing?
surround neurons and provide support for and insulation between them.
What are glial cells?
a deeply ingrained pattern of behaviour of a specified kind that deviates markedly from the norms of generally accepted behavior, typically apparent by the time of adolescence, and causing long-term difficulties in personal relationships or in functioning in society.
What is personality disorder?
the personal sense of one's own gender.
What is gender identity?
an accurate representation of the distribution of numerical data. It is an estimate of the probability distribution of a continuous variable
What is a histogram?
a region of the brain concerned with the production of speech, located in the cortex of the dominant frontal lobe.
What is the Broca's area?
is a theoretical approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
an extreme focus on physical symptoms — such as pain or fatigue — that causes major emotional distress and problems functioning. You may or may not have another diagnosed medical condition associated with these symptoms, but your reaction to the symptoms is not normal.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
a phase of the life span between the adolescence and also full-fledged adulthood
What is emerging adulthood?